St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-01-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


attributed to the Gar and referred to as
illustrating the nature of his maladv
TIE recent cold weather has covered the
st. Lawrence river with ice, sufficiently
strong to allow of the crossing OF teams
between Cape Vincent and Kingston,
distance of twelve miles.
Mr. GLADSTONE declines to EXPIRE IS any
opinion @. the ''plan Of campaign" III Ire
land.
SIXTEEN persons are known to have been
killed. and as many more injured, by a
collision on the Baltimore a. ONO road
near Tif1in, O., on the 4th.
DR.. WEIR, of Oscoda, Mich, was com
mitted for extradition, on the 4th, before
Judge Elliott at London, Ont.
THE three Frisco express robbers were
sentenced at St. Louis on the 4th Witt
rock and Haight each got seven years, and
Weaver got five years, with the costs
assessed against them.
A COMPANY of Canadian and English
capitalists propose to construct cable
telegraph line from Vancouver to Aus
tralia.
A TRAIN ran into a sleigh-load OF men
| near Pewaukee, Wis, on the 4th, killing
| three and fatally injuring several others.
A RAILWAY collision at West Springfield,
and about q dozen other persons were in
| jured.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has committed
the death sentence of John w. Parrot, OF
| Arkansas, to five years imprisonment
! PRoGREss in the reconstruction of the
British Cabinet is impeded by party Jeal-
| ousies over Goschens appointment.
| Two Mexicans were killed outright, and
two more mortally wounded, by two ne
| groes and Il white man IN Guadalupe
County, Tex, on the 4th
| IT was announced at the fortnightly Ma
| tional League meeting at Dublin, on the
| tth, that the receipts from America during
| the preceding two weeks amounted to
| $4,000.
| THE board of engineers sent by the War
| Department to investigate the matter has
reported against a low bridge at st. Louis.
THE caucus nominees of the Illinois
| Legislature We're as follows: For presl-
dent of the Senate, August W. Berggren,
Rep: Andrew J. Bell, Dem. For Speaker,
| William f. Calhoun, Rep; Clayton E.
! Crafts, Dem.
THE President has signed the bill au-
thorizing the construction of bridge
| across the St Louis river between Mime
sofa and Wisconsin.
|
| 4th issued a call upon the National banks
for statement of their condition on De-
| cember %, 1856.
THE rotund figure of tn e Hon. Benja
min F. Butler moved with an easy famili-
! arity about the floor Of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington on the AZ
Mr. Butler spent about two hours chatting
| with the different members.
| THE President resumed his official duties
| on the 4th He was still suffering from
rheumatic pains, but seemed to be improv-
! ing steadily. He had long interview
| with the Civil Service Commissioners, and
| subsequently received Comptroller Tren-
| holm. The regular Cabinet meeting was
held in the afternoon, all the members ex-
| cept Secretary Lamar being in attendance
| CHARLEL H. SHEERILL, who died quite
| suddenly in Washing ton on the night of
| the Sd. has been one of the notable figures
| in the capital for more than quarter of a
I century. He Is spoken of in obituary no.
| tees as the ''attorney' of the Central and
! Southern Pacific railroads. He was in
! reality the head of the Transcontinental
railroad lobby, and had been the trusted
agent in Washington of Huntington, Stan
ford and Jay Gould for great many years
THE Emperor and Empress of Austria
Venice in March, on the occasion of the
| unveiling of the monument of the late
| King Victor Emanuel
THE Illinois Legislature convened on the
5th, and William F. Calhoun, Republican,
| was elected Speaker of the House. Caleb
c. johnson was the Democratic nominee.
GERHARD GoELKER, aged one hundred
| years, died at Efin CHAM, ILL.,, on the 5th
THE North Carolina Legislature assem-
bled at Raleigh on the 5th
JOHN ROACH, the ship-builder, it is
| thought, can not live more than few
| weeks at the outside.
The Journal de st. Petersburg scouts the
idea of Prince Alexander returning to
| Bulgaria as ruler.
ANOTHER circular denouncing O'Donovan
Rosa has been issued by the Fenian
| Brotherhood.
FIFTY-sIx rioters were sentenced at
Dublin on the 9Th to terms Of Imprisonment
| ranging from twelve to eighteen months.
SECRETARY LAMAR was married at Ma
con, Ga, on the 9Th, to Mrs. William S.
Holt, Of Macon, and departed for Oxford,
Miss, en- route to Washington.
ALEXANDREsCo, who attempted to assas-
sinate Premier Bratiano at Bucharest, was
sentenced on the 5th to twenty years.
! penal servitude.
THE River and Harbor bill has been COM
| pleted in committee at Washington and
| appropriates s7,l5S,250
AMONG the petitions presented to Con-
gress on the 9Th were several protesting
against the adoption Of the conference re-
port on the Interstate Commerce bill.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has written warm
letter expressing his feeling toward the
army on the occasion Of the eightieth an
/ niversary Of his entrance into the military
service.
THE Massachusetts Legislature or
gained on the 5th with the selection of II.
J. Boardman as president of the Senate,
and Chas. J. Noyes as Speaker Of the
House.
A FIRE at Belvidere, N. j., destroyed q